A01532:105
A discussion of the popish doctrine of transubstantiation wherein the same is declared, by…A discussion of the popish doctrine of transubstantiation vvherein the same is declared, by…
A discussion of the popish doctrine of transubstantiation wherein the same is declared, by the confession of their own writers, to have no necessary ground in Gods Word: as also it is further demonstrated to be against Scripture, nature, sense, reason, religion, and the judgement of t5xxauncients, and the faith of our ancestors: written by Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.A discussion of the popish doctrine of transubstantiation vvherein the same is declared, by the confession of their owne writers, to haue no necessary ground in Gods Word: as also it is further demonstrated to be against Scripture, nature, sense, reason, religion, and the iudgement of t5xxauncients, and the faith of our auncestours: written by Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by John for William Sheffard, 1624London: printed by Iohn for William Sheffard, 1624
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Part 2 › Division 1: Division I.Part 2 › Division 1: Diuision I.
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But I hope when this Bishop of Flanders book cometh to be reprinted again, they will take that course with him, (if they have not left their old guise) that they have done formerly with many others; to wipe out of him whatsoever in this kind or any other, either maketh directly against them, or discovereth the weakness of such grounds as they labour to build their gross errors upon. Of which their false and fraudulent dealing, it shall not be amiss to insert one Example by the way; the rather, because it concerneth the point here debated. Whereas therefore in the time of Carolus Calvus King of France and Emperor, above 800. years since, there was gmuch disputation and dissension in the Church about the doctrine of the Sacrament, one Bertram a man hof great ⟨p. 39⟩note in those times both for life and learning, willed by the Emperor to declare his judgement therein, wrote a learned discourse thereof, wherein he confirmeth by the testimonies of Augustine, Ambrose, and others of the Ancients, the very same that we now hold: and among other things affirmeth that ithere is as great difference between Christs body that was borne of the Virgin Mary, and that which is daily received with the month in the Sacrament, as there is between the pledge, and that for which the pledge is given, between the image, and that whereof it is an image, and between the type and the truth. Now the Popish purgers authorised to main and mangle Authors, as well old as new, cum privilegio, without control, lighting among others on this book of Bertram's, use these words of it, and of their own confessed courses in this kind. kAlbeit (say they) we make no great reckoning of this book, and therefore should not greatly care if it were utterly lost, and were no where to be had; (I cannot blame them if they wish it, and many other the like, burnt and abolished) yet seeing that the book hath been oft printed, and reprinted, hath been read of very many, is known commonly by the name of a book forbidden, and the Heretics by diverse Catalogues of Books prohibited, are sure there is such an one, &c.